UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[Sky Blue]

Beware that the press will be reading this topic so don't make comments that you might regret later. Man Utd and Liverpool fans do not plan their operations in public.

Fuck the press....fuck them right off.

 

[George Hannah]

BBC Timeline - No mention of Hacked Emails and no link to club statement

Man City ban timeline: From Der Spiegel claims to European club competition ban

Uefa has handed Manchester City a two-season European club competition ban and a 30m euros (£25m) fine after it found the club guilty of committing "serious breaches" of the governing body's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.

Below is a timeline of events:

• 5 November, 2018: German publication Der Spiegel claims Manchester City and their sponsors manipulated contracts to circumvent Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. The German news magazine says the club allegedly misled Uefa by not revealing they had directed money to the club from Abu Dhabi owner Sheikh Mansour via sponsors linked to him, and artificially inflated the value of their commercial income to help meet FFP rules requiring clubs to break even. City say they will not be commenting on the claims.
• March 2019: Uefa begins investigating the club for potential breaches of its FFP regulations. It says: "The investigation will focus on several alleged violations of FFP that were recently made public in various media outlets."
• 13 May, 2019: The New York Times reports that members of the investigatory chamber of Uefa's financial watchdog - the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), which is effectively the 'prosecution' in this process - were pushing for expulsion from the Champions League for at least one season.
• 16 May, 2019: City say they are "disappointed, but regrettably not surprised" after being referred to Uefa's financial control body adjudicatory chamber.
• June 2019: City file an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas). They challenge Uefa's decision to refer them to its financial watchdog, the CFCB, which would decide on any punishment.
• November 2019: City fail in an initial bid to have Cas halt Uefa's investigation.
• 12 February, 2020: Cas publishes documents that show City sought damages from Uefa for what they alleged were "unlawful" leaks to the media with regards to an inquiry into possible FFP breaches. The documents also show senior Uefa official Yves Leterme had dismissed the club's claims, stating they were "groundless" and "unacceptable in tone".
• 14 February, 2020: City are banned from European club competition for the next two seasons after being found to have committed "serious breaches" of Uefa's club licensing and financial fair play regulations. The Premier League champions say they are "disappointed but not surprised" by the "prejudicial" decision and will appeal.

 

[squirtyflower]

These same journalists are patting each other on the backs for getting us the ban.

Fuck them off and let them write their shite but we should play no part in communicating with them from now on.

My daughter and I lost our fucking seats so these ****s can sit there and write their bile

 

[Marvin]

So we are a year or two down the line after the nuclear winter has passed City having unleashed a football/soccer weapon of mass destruction . How does the football/soccer world look then ?

The ironic thing though is that since the last set of sanctions, City have actually been carrying out the FFP program to the letter.

We've gone from huge spending and losses to profit and burgeoning revenues. This really proves that FFP was not about putting in place financial safeguards for football but it was all about ring-fencing and protecting a small group of clubs.

Unfortunately the BBC and the Guardian are well onside with UEFA and we fight alone.

At least now our own fans will get behind us in the same way that we did in the 1990s. I hope too that Sheikh Mansour will return to the front foot that characterised the first years of his ownership. You can not negotiate and compromise with people who are set on destroying you.

 

[Gordyola]

In the recent CAS case
City had 5 lawyers
UEFA 2

in the arbitration between
Manchester City Football Club Limited, Manchester, United Kingdom
Represented by Mr Paul Harris QC, Barrister, Monckton Chambers, London, United Kingdom, Mr Rhodri Thomas and Ms Natalie Sheehan, Solicitors, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London, United Kingdom, Mr Jean-Cédric Michel and Mr Massimiliano Maestretti, Attorneys-at-Law, Kellerhals Carrard, Lugano, Switzerland
as Appellant
and
Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA), Nyon, Switzerland
Represented by Dr Jan Kleiner and Mr Luca Tarzia, Attorneys-at-Law, Bär & Karrer AG, Zurich, Switzerland

 

[bluemoon32]

39 murders .....

Liverpool fans just shrug Heysel off as if it doesn't matter, i've never understood this as i'd be ashamed if City fans had been involved.
Fcuking weird lot the Scousers

 

[KS55]

I think the only sensible thing, now that even if we prove we didn't break their bent rules, is to show that said rules are bent outright. So it can no longer be used as a stick to beat us at all. Even United and Liverpool fans know they are but they still say "you cheated", cheated rules you know shouldn't be allowed in the first place but got put their by clubs like yours? No we didn't and no there isn't anything wrong with a clubs owner investing in their club's team.

Yes we should prove that we didn't break the rules but the whole narrative goes out of the window when FFP is deemed to be the cheat.

Where do we put the asterisks if that happens? Will any of these journalists go after any of the clubs implicated in getting a bent law in place, if proven links can be established?

Chances of blowing out FFP are minimal. Rules sanctioned by EU Commission. The case in the Belgian courts got nowhere, even when the court agreed with us.

 

[paulchapo]

We have a twat on board.

To be fair we are living in his / her non gender specific / head. And a very spacious head it is too.

The dick just started a " Who will you support now?" thread, looks to have been deleted, so hopefully the vermin has been banned. I don't envy the mods for the next few months.

 

[city986]

When we win our appeal we go after all the club's who alow sponsorship by certain parties who basically wash money through them ,we know who they are as the have been done for it by the u s authority's ,let's start looking under all the rocks city the fight back begins now ,as storming Norman one said shock and awe let's do it let's show the world who is corrupt

 

[blueyorkie]

As a disinterested fan of a club whose CL memories have long faded into the past, I think this action from UEFA is despicable, corrupt, unjust and aimed at state aid for European clubs who can’t compete.

if Real Madrid or Barcelona had done the same as alleged, they’d only get a €15,000 fine

Absolute bollox

Nice of you Jack, in amongst all the twisted bunch rejoicing there are decent fans around !